Multibeam stimulated Brillouin scattering from hot, solid-target plasmas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 17, 2002, Pages 175002/1-175002/4

  Seka, W ^a   Baldis, H A ^b,c   Fuchs, J ^d   Regan, S P ^a   Meyerhofer, D D ^a   Stoeckl, C ^a   Yaakobi, B ^a   Craxton, R ^a   Short, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; HYDRODYNAMICS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PLASMAS; TURBULENCE;

POLARIZATION SMOOTHNESS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 0037152755     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.175002     Document Type: Article

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